24 weeks

This is another big week for our growing baby! Just take a look at the checklist for this week: 1) ears: done; 2) fingernails: done; 3)testicles: taking their 3-4 day trip from the abdominal wall to the scrotum; and 4) lungs walls: secreting “surfactant”. What’s that? Well, surfactant is sort of what it sounds like: a surface-activated fat whose main purpose is to assist Rylan's little lungs during inflation (as in, filling with air, not getting more expensive). Just in case you’re curious, Rylan is still breathing in amniotic fluid, preparing and rehearsing the lungs an oxygen-filled life outside the womb. By the end of this week, he will be weighing around 2 lbs and 14 inches long. Our cutie-patootie may even be a little more plump, but isn't anywhere near his full baby-fatted cute-self. Most of the “filling out” is coming up in that long awaited (and slightly dreaded?) third trimester. Woo-hoo! I'm ready!!